On Wed, 25 May 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > SDEV_OFFLINE, /* Device offlined (by error handling or > > * user request */ > > So how do you fix the error or online it again? No chance it should > have commands passed to it to do that? Yeah - that makes sense. By that logic, looks like we can only disallow for SDEV_DEL (if we decide to do that check here). > I don't know. My point is that I don't see why we should look at the > state at this point at all. We do that _later_. If we can do it later, well and good. I just didn't think it would hurt to check upfront in ioctl if we are dealing with a dead device. Parag
